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What are your two of the most eye opening threads/topics on the UKAPS?

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Name/link only two please.

Two only.

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For me these two have changed totally my way of keeping aquatic plants:

I always bow down to the experimenters
Weekly nutrient consumption in planted aquarium

and to the inventors (it's a search through the UKAPS, not direct link to the particular thread)
Duckweed index

PS: I'm sorry for the sand only substrate mafia but two means two.
 
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The 2 most important things I feel I learnt from UKAPS (which have been reiterated in many different threads so it is difficult to attribute the learning to a particular thread) are:
(1) Ferts don't cause algae
(2) Flow is king, especially at the substrate level.
 
Bit controversial I know😅
But for me it would be these two threads

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Lean dosing pros and cons

Hi all, I’ve recently set up my new scape AS1200 and densely planted. Running CO2 with an in-line diffuser on both Oase 600 filters and dosing APT Complete daily as per instructions on the bottle. I’m still doing daily water changes for the first month and then will dial it back slowly until I...
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Weekly nutrient consumption in planted aquarium

I would like to share with you the results of my three-months experiment with real consumption of nutrients in planted aquarium. I weighed the plant biomass (live weight) which were produced in my aquarium regularly (after each trimming). Every time I did some trimming in my tank, I thoroughly...
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Both threads introduced me to marcels work and the former is the first place I’ve seen happis work. For which I am very grateful
 
UKAPS is a mine of information, some of it fairly advanced, thanks to the contributions of key members, and experts @dw1305 and @ceg4048. But it's nearly all built upon a solid foundation of basics, which makes the forum accessible to pretty much everyone, and especially those just starting out on their planted tank journey. So for this reason alone I think anything from the tutorials section has to be top of my list, with Clive's @ceg4048 tutorials being among the most helpful.

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EI DOSING USING DRY SALTS

EI DOSING USING DRY SALTS The Economics of Dry Powders It never ceases to amaze me how many people react with trepidation to the thought of dosing their tanks with dry salts. For some reason they seem more comfortable spending megabucks on commercial products, which are composed of...
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CO2 MEASUREMENT USING A DROP CHECKER

CO2 application is the most finicky and ethereal component of all the things associated with a planted tank. In a high tech tank, it is arguably the most critical item and is the cause for more headaches than any other issue. This is because unlike solid powders or liquid drops, which typically...
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It's an impossible question but the tutorials and articles l go back to again and a again. Always look in on journals were possible whether it's a experienced aquascaper/planted tank guru or a new to the hobby member. I would add @Tim Harrison " Soil Substrate Dirted Tank "probably put me on to the Diana Walsted book, and the work of the Fertiliser chaps @Zeus. and company and as mentioned above the" Duckweed Index "was big learning curve. Always read how members try to get to the question why? as regards algae plant growth, lighting etc @jaypeecee and others
 
As above really, too numerous to mention, but any post which answers my questions is an eye opener, as it's something I didn't know until somebody told me.
If I was to narrow it down then I like the way @ceg4048 answers questions, straight to the point, no nonsense, just tells it how it is.
 
Too many to mention although bucket of mud and poco pozo was why I signed up initially. There are also so many posters that provide great information and I have learnt a lot since I joined, it’s a fantastic friendly forum. @Geoffrey Rea And @dw1305 stand out and I always learn something reading their posts although they are certainly not the only ones!
 
If you want to spend an hour or six and learn.

Spezial N - Nitrogen Fertilizer

Hi Dan and of course all other Ukaps Members, Dan and I've talked about the nitrogen fertilizer with calciumnitrate, magnesiumnitrate, potassiumnitrate and urea in Hannover. Here you can find the original thread about it at flowgrow (rubbish translated by google...)...
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What causes leaves to melt, and what to do now?

Having planted a 14l nano, the following day all leaves on the Ambulia Conferta and Micranthemum Micranthemoides had melted. There is a little melting on the Saurogyne but the other plants are fine (HC and Eleoacharis) I am doing 50% water changes daily in the Initial stages and dose easycarbo...
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